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[fast grow the weeds] On being an incrementalist « fast grow the weeds: If I had to shell all 25 pounds of the dried bean harvest at one time I would be more than a little crazy.  Thankfully, this task can be put off, done only when you need the beans.  I have about 15 paper grocery sacks filled with dried, unhusked beans that I simply harvested, tied up to dry in the shed, and bagged when I had the time this winter.  On Sunday, I looked at the contents of our pantry and said “cassoulet might be nice this week,” so out came a bag of beans and fortunately the child is almost always wearing the boots.

[Do not eat the jelly beans!] Busy busy weekend”¦: All of this is low-carb and I hope to put some in the freezer and into tupperware for the rest of the week. I have to work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday of this week and I want stuff available to just pack and run!

[Absolutely Bananas: Seattle mom blog] fooooooooOOOOOOD!: Things like drinking syrup right from the fridge or pounding a whole giant bag of jelly beans or (gasp) sneaking pudding cups. And the more I pushed and controlled and constrained the sneakier he became, getting up at 6am to eat fruit .

[Hip Mama blogs] cheap food, cheap living, conserving | Hip Mama: my current cheap foods selection is: Vegetarian stuffed peppers mjadra red beans and rice black beans and rice... yep.

[Stillane? Yep.] Stillane? Yep. - Fic Post: Settle (The Rundown, Travis/Beck, R): Travis sits with his back against the dishwasher, face pale and still, and doesn’t open his eyes when Beck flips the light on. Beck kneels next to him, shoulder blades crawling with the expectation of attack, but there’s only the two of them.

[Best Advice Ever] Best way to freeze meat for months & months: Freezing saves money on easy foods to cook in mass quantities. Foods like hearty soups can easily be frozen in individual servings and go from freezer to nuke to table.

[Creatively Domestic] Creatively Domestic: Crockpot Refried Beans: Once the beans have cooked, strain them, and reserve the liquid. Mash the beans with a potato masher, adding the reserved water as needed to attain desired consistency.

[Tigers & Strawberries] Tigers & Strawberries » What To Do With Garlic Scapes And Purple ...: Instead of using shallots in the recipe, I used local scallions, and the garlic I used was also local, fresh hardneck garlic. I used soem of the last few Thai dragon chiles from last fall that have been in the freezer, and have been heating up my cooking all winter long;

[Tiger Lily Pregnancy] Traditional Food Challenge - Day 22 Update: We did have a point this weekend where I had to give in and allow the use of corn tortillas from the store.  I had no other grains or beans ready to go, everyone was hungry, and my family is not satisfied with a meal that doesn’t include either grains or beans to give some sort of carb illusion.

[Moms Need To Know] Day of Baking, Part 2: While the rice was cooking, I got to work on the sugar cookies.  Although I could have made them from scratch, the truth is that I was just making them from a cookie mix (2 bags).  I do enjoy cooking from scratch, but I got a great deal on cookie mix at $.16 per bag (actually less, since it was part of a moneymaking Catalina deal) and I can’t put the “from scratch” ingredients in a bowl for less than $.16 per batch.

[Bitten] Surging Seed Sales - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com: Having said that, I still have a stash of pesto in my freezer to get me through the long and cold winter in Minnesota. It’s amazing what you can harvest from one little package of seeds.

[CHEESESLAVE] Last-Minute Mexican Rice & Beans | CHEESESLAVE: We are going to start doing that after I run out (I hit the motherload of organic canned beans at 75% off and stocked up). Thanks so much for all the encouragement you give!

[That Wife] That Wife’s Bean Soup | That Wife: You will learn in finer detail what my eating habits are really like in future posts, but I thought I would show you a staple recipe I’ve been using a lot lately, in an attempt to make up for all the naughty treats I’ve been tempting you with.

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